Tarrare, the hungriest man to live.
Tarrare, the hungriest man to live. Tarrare was born to a poor family of French peasants in 1772. What made him unique was his seemingly unlimited hunger, being able to eat his own weight every day in his early teens. At age 17, his family couldn’t afford to keep his gargantuan appetite and kicked him out. For the next few years, Tarrare would work as a street performer, with crowds giving him many things to eat, ranging from Apples, to live animals, to corks, to flints, and many other things no one else could digest. He was relatively normal appearance-wise, except for his large mouth, which was reported he could fit 12 apples inside at once. Despite his monstrous appetite, he only weighed 100 pounds (45.3 Kg), probably due to his quick digestion. He was also known to smell horribly, even by 18th Century peasant standards, with the London Medical and Physical Journal writing that, “He often stank to such a degree, that he could not be endured withi...